WHILE WE'RE AT IT

AUTHOR(S)

Neuhaus, Richard John

PUB. DATE

December 1996

SOURCE

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life;Dec1996, Issue 68, p63

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on Marco Politi, co-author of the book "His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time." Number of times that Pope John Paul II was on his death bed observed by Politi; Progressiveness of the Pope according to Politi.

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